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"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick'"

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  • Chrome 118 released.

    Chrome 118 was released this morning (NZ Time) with quite a number of changes (link), many of the changes involve removing non compliant implementations such as webkit prefixed APIs that have been superseded by APIs that have been officially stabilised and standardised. I guess a good portion of the removals have to do with pushing…

  • Switching between platforms.

    I’ve been watching a few iPhone to Samsung switch videos for a while and the one thing I notice is that a lot of time is spent on the hardware and software but little spent on talking about migrating from one ecosystem to another ecosystem. When I mean ecosystem I am referring to moving from…

  • Made by Google Keynote 2023.

    It’s that time of the year and Google has announced a laundry list of updates – the biggest IMHO is the 7 year software support which will hopefully push other Android handset OEMs to step up along with Qualcomm and other SoC vendors to provide support long term. Although it hasn’t launched in New Zealand…

  • Back to Chrome…again.

    Well, I’ve given Safari a try for a couple of weeks with one week using Safari 17 (using AdGuard with all but the filters that are labelled problematic enabled) and so far it has been good but I run into compatibility issues with some sites not to mention the limitations of Apple’s Webextensions API implementation…

  • macOS 14 released and reducing expenses.

    macOS 14 has been released today and I’ve done a clean install on both my MacBook Air and Mac Studio – so far things are very stable, Safari is performing well, AdGuard Safari Extension is working, over all the experience is a lot smoother than previous releases which goes back to a post I made…

  • My dependency on Google Chrome.

    I’ve talked about Safari and Webextensions API in the past but never really went into good detail as to the current situation of Safari and why it lags behind Firefox and Chrome when it comes to the functionality that web extension developers need to make their extensions work. At the moment there is the Webextensions…

  • macOS 13.6 update released.

    Woke up this morning before heading off to work and Apple has released macOS 13.6 just a few days before they release macOS 14.0 to the world. Installed it on my Mac Studio along with Google also releasing an update which updated Chrome from 117.0.5938.88 to 117.0.5938.92 – no noticeable difference although apparently there have…

  • Good bye MTP, hello SMB.

    Being at the end of my tether I have decided to throw in the towel and give up on MTP in favour of setting up an SMB server on my Mac and simply download to my Android phone over the network. The process of copying around 45GB of files has reduced from over 24 hours…

  • The recent Apple event.

    Unfortunately I didn’t get to watch the event live (it is really early on Wednesday and I wasn’t going to get up at 5 am to watch it) but I was able to give the presentation a quick browse through picking up the key points that were raised. For me, the biggest ‘feature’ (if you…

  • Always read beyond the announcement.

    I’m always sceptical when I hear politicians talking about ‘cutting back end staff’ and ‘putting more money into front end staff’ because in sounds great in theory as so long as you don’t think about it too deeply for more than 5 minutes. I find it interesting how ‘back end staff’ is being used as…